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02/11/20
ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission Launches Free Online Class Featuring Thunderbird’s Mansour Javidan
Course on building effective teams covers team culture, diversity, bias, and inclusivity Imagine a team of scientific experts representing 15 distinct...
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02/03/20
ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission Offers Free Online Course on Team Building from Leadership Experts
NASA Psyche Mission are being designed and built in preparation for launch to the Psyche asteroid in 2022, the mission management team at Arizona...
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12/06/19
Entrepreneur Program Empowers Native Women to Forge a Brighter Future
Reprinted with permission from Cronkite News. Diplomas in hand, 16 Navajo women became the latest graduating class of Project DreamCatcher, a free...
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10/24/19
Careers Don’t Take Straight Lines - Be Patient with the Twists and Turns in Your Career
For Sean Kerrigan (‘05), the path to becoming the National Director for World Vision Rwanda has been one of twists, turns, humility, patience, and...
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10/16/19
Thunderbird’s 2019 CEO Survey — Conclusions and Methodology
Why Causes Us To Admire Business Leaders? It may seem indulgent to speak with journalists for the sake of awareness (we wish politicians felt the same...
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10/16/19
Thunderbird’s 2019 CEO Survey — Nine Most Admired CEO Qualities
The most admired leadership qualities are “magic wands” or “halos.” Magic wands bring to mind leaders like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. The two iconic...
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Editor's choice
A curated list of articles selected by the editors.
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01/10/23
Eight essential international business skills
Learn eight essential international business skills to prevent and handle costly mistakes that can occur in transnational business.
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01/09/23
What is global leadership?
Learn about global leadership and the skills that future business leaders need to be successful global leaders, including developing a Global Mindset.
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12/13/22
Buyer beware: how online retailers manipulate prices and what consumers can do to protect themselves from overpaying
Who doesn’t like a bargain? During the last weeks of the year, consumers around the world are looking for good deals for end-of-year holiday shopping...
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